Show THE GARLAND Willetts but I’ve compunctions been having y’s chauffeur" Synthetic Gentleman By CHANNING POLLOCK Opprrirhit Ch&nnlnr WNTJ Pollock fiorrio ooooooooc CHAPTER VIII — Continued — s— “Wasting my time" Barry told Harwood the next morning In the city editor's busy office at The Globe “My time and nearly a hundred dollars of the paper’s money Winslow had It straight The Fane girl was strutting her stulT from one o'clock until long after the murder” “Well It’s good to he sure” Ev“Yes and I’m mighty sure now ery step I’ve taken since otir last meeting leads right up to Mrs Kelly" Harwood looked at him quizzically “Step No 1?" he asked a re“My advertisement offering ward for the number of the cub that killed that artist's wife" “You don’t mean that you got It?" BacEJ oppu(d hlsnote Trlutpphajitly hook There It Is" he said “02G017 The figures under It are the number of the driver who gave me the information” Ernie copied both numbers “Swell work” he commented “Anything else?" This fellow had a passenger “Lots who got out at street When the woman around midnight was killed — two hours later — the drlv-bumped Into him again in Sixteenth street very much rattled and looking as though ‘he'd committed a mu'' "Sorry dinner with nourishment?" sir” Evans admitted shly “But that was the only I bad with that Irishman" “Liquid “Yes sir Kell- sheepi- chance “Well?” “Well I drove Miss Uambldge and Mrs Rogers and the boy to Southlike you said And I started ampton buck today It was nearly eight when I made the garage and I was good and hungry “There's a decent cafe a few yards Nolan — that’s Kelly’s chaufaway feur — was sitting at a table with a load he ought to've gone twice for” Evans entiled “Ed had a grouch on women In general I And he was chowed plenty hadn’t been with him long when he There’s opened up on Mrs Kelly something queer between her and this he says" Filipino "Charlie?” “That Isn't his name but let It go at that And when Ed said ‘queer’ he didn’t mean anything wrong Just some kind of nn understanding Mrs coin Kelly’s been giving the Chink and Jewelry regular Charlie showed him some of It Ed says “Well the night of the murder Noland drives Kelly to the Cocoanut Har And home — at nine o’clock When he gets out at his house Kelly says ‘Put the cur in the garage Mrs Kelly’s won't need gone up to Harlem and yon ’til tomorrow morning’ “Ed obeys orders He goes back to This Kelly’s and sits In the kitchen Chink Is In the butler’s pantry getAnd while the two ting a tray ready or brn are down there' the damnedest row starts upstairs —” “Rogers and Kelly" “No This was around nine o’clock Mrs Kelly She was laying Mike out so you could have heard It a block rder" “Any description?" “Rather a vague one That doesn’t matter I’m sure In my own mind that this passenger was the caller and that he wasn’t the Kelly expected I’m equnlly sure that he murderer knew murder had been committed" In “Let’s call It a mere supposition that case Kelly was killed around two o’clock At two o’clock Mrs Kelly wasn’t In Harlem” “How do you know that?" Barry’s answer was a full report of of Saturday “Withhis adventures out Step No 1 Step No 2 means nothing In other words If Kelly’d been killed at midnight —which is the theory everyone’s worked on — Sirs Kelly’s alibi would have been holeproof" In an Harwood Joined his “I wish we almost prayerful gesture could find the guy who looked 'as a murder’ ” though he’d committed Barry made no reply “That’s always the trouble” the city "What kind of a went on Is this Luis Morano? Tough?" Cries over a “On the contrary mammy song” a heap of ’em do" Har"There's wood philosophized “He's a Southerner with a soft voice and a funny Impediment In his speech?” so?" Harwood “That Inquired “Where is this Cocoanut Bar?" reand promptly Barry told him turned to Mrs Kelly “How the deuce are we going to prove what she did home?” she after got “I'm “That's up to you" Ernie said Ills eyes off on a new tack now" “One that would go a long twinkled toward establishing your theory way Gosh I’d give my two of coincidence uppers to break this story within the next week or two" Thursday evening Barry spent In his room mostly thinking lie had telephoned I’at twice since their luncheon together and found her enthusiastic "There’s over her guests nothing wrong with the boy" she declared that a few weeks out here “nothing won't cure lie’s on the bench now with his mother" had taken to the Judge Uambldge little fellow at once Almost like havIt kept his mind off ing a grandchild And no one could sec his worries starI’eggy being brave but always ahvats thinking of ing at nothing what might happen without pity that “She's really wuruied Into affection an awfully good sort" Tat said from “I like her a lot When Southampton are you Cuming out?” 1 hope” “Tomorrow “Well well expect yau for dinner" That breach was healed all right I’at had called him “the scum of the he reIn the same hour earth” membered again he had told her he loed her As to that she still main"That's the kindest tained silence thing she could do" Barry thought “A Judge’s daughter and I —” to had not learned think of Barry “Nor heed the rumble of the future a distant drum” as his own father bad put it Just for now it was pleasant to be somebody who knew I’at — and tie wanted to take that awful took “That out of the other girl’s ejes oughtn't to be hard now” Barry “If I could get that Filipino thought when Mrs knows talk lie to Kelly came home and he's probably got a darned good Idea what she did afterward If we could get to that Oriental—” At which point Euris came and he had been drinking inking ‘Sorry sir" be ajadnied the nearest chair Lwims bad tome of editor akate to give yon this It Southampton — Just a I was Evans a cablegram Alone II room Barry opened It Nine “Father and I sailing words for home Sunday Love Mother" For an Instant he stood frozen the wire In bis hund before him an evening Directly newspaper lay open on the table and mall passenger ships" be read “Sailing tomorrow— For Steamship Oranje Nassau Prince La Gunyra Curacoa MaraI’m caibo Carupano and Pampatar on my way to one of 'em tomorrow I" “Oh I came— to leaving" “This” the IT A II TIMES GARLAND forgot wild was Cool Shirtwaister For Busy Women CHAPTER IX Barry's panic was Between him and the sailing list had come a vision of Peggy with beaded lashes screening eyes forever staring at nothing “1 can’t do It" he said to himself “I can’t run away and leave that girl In the lurch I’ve Nor Pat either tackled this Job and I've got to go through with It It begins to look as though “Anyway If Bidder sails the end were In sight Sunday — " He went back to the shipping news "If Bidder sails Sunday that’s the Bremen and she's due here the followThat gives ns eight ing Saturday see I’d Winslow” better days He called but Peter next morning the attorney was In the country “Left last night” his secretary reported "and won’t be back until Monday” at Barry had a dinner engagement “We'll start-things Southampton hymmlng on Monthly "Bftrry told himSelf ''I’ve got my house to put In order too Bidder’s house that Is" Evans telephoned around ten and before noon they were on their way to Southampton last “My with Pat” be was thinking “Where'll I be next Saturday? Out of luck and In jail maybe and In out of a Job the newspapers That’s my finish with Every wardrobe demands at least n frock always on call ready for Instant duty Here Is such a frock — a most attractive and serviceable on— new and flattering version of — tb shirtwaist type with everybody” There wus a new atmosphere at the a clever matched collar short bbJ Pat had been right In simple set In sleeves two or four Hambldge'a sockets as you wish and a plain telling Jacky that he'd “cheer my Sad Experience a tlier up a lot" klrt with two kick pleats In the "They're building tench Some experiences yon nothfront and a center seam ending In railway on the beach" she laughed — when the boy sunburned and active— ing— except to gronn when you think another kick pleat at the back of them Joined them before dinner Barbara Bell Pattern No 1801-“You must go to bed now" Pal bade la available in sizes: 14 10 18 20 Idm “If we’re to take our ride In the 43 and 42 Corresponding bust measWe have a canter every day urements 82 84 30 88 40 and 42 morning before breakfast” she added to Barry Elza 10 (34) requlrea 4 yards of 39 ringing for a maid to take charge of Inch material Send 13 cents in coin "I discovered the dear- lor the pattern the youngster est little pony In the village and the 8end your order to Tbe Sewing nmn brings It over at nine o’clock Circle Pattern Dept 149 New Montwith another horse for me Jacky's gomery Aye San Francisco Calif C Bell Syndicate— TTNU ferric getting to be a regular Buffalo BllL" The strained expression of a week ago was beginning to disappear from the face of Judge Hambldge But the greatest difference was in the boy's mother Naturally Imitative as Barry had remarked she had been quick to WILL YOU DttOP DP TO SURE Ne YOOU& observe and emulate Pat’s moderation stars Ernia Copied Both Numbers Well this goes on for ten or fifteen minutes and then the bell from the Charlie starts upstairs parlor rings He gets up two steps with the tray when Kelly appears at the head of the flight “Come up here you lousy spy Come up here while I tell you where you get off!’ "Charlie sets down the tray and Nolan follows Into the pantry goes Then he sits and has a stiff drink down again nnd listens to Kelly laying out the Chink” “Could he hear anything? Words I mean?” Mrs Kelly "No Just Kelly’s voice was out of It She’d gone to her room Nolan thinks But Kelly made noise And after another enough for two ten minutes or so Charlie conies back ’I’m fired’ Charlie says — in Hie ‘I got to get out Chink lingo That told me to go quick or he’d kill me’ “ ‘Are you going?’ Nolan asks “‘Sure’ the Chink says “I got to get my money first He chased me out of the room when I asked for It but I'm going back’ the Chink says “Nolan then took the cook to a movie and when they get back everytbehing’s quiet It’s after midnight cause these two walked home Kelly’s upstairs talking to somebody and the Chink's in his room packing and muttering to himself something frightful So Nolan says good night to the cook who goes Into her room and then Nolan slips Into the pantry and takes another shot of that hootch” ’"What hootch?" was telling you ‘‘The rye whiskey about Barry "The “Sure sprang from rye whiskey?" And hl3 chulr It was In a decanier” “Are you certain?" And he's Just as certain “Nolan Is that it wus still In the pnntry w'hen Hie guy upstairs left" “Why?” "Because he heard the front door close ten seconds before be went out the hack way" exclaimed “Gosh “That Barry puts It up to Mrs Kelly all right” Evans shook his head drunkenly ’Mrs Kelly wasn't home" lie said "She went ’to hef sister's "after “the In Harlem and Nolan got her there the next morning before There were they called the police after only three people In that the guy went who was visiting Kelly — Kelly himself cook and a mighty hiad Chinaman” ’Filipino” “Whatever he was he was mad and the decanter that killed Kelly was downstairs with him until Just about the time Kelly was killed" Thank” Barry nodded ' T thluk ' we've something" gt make-uwith Her speech too had lost all but an occasional Inadvertent reference to “gnys" and “dames” She had stopped staring Into space ‘‘What’s the news about Jack?" sbe asked quite calmly "Free next week” Barry declared rlnglngly At the dinner table in spite of herself Peg caught some of the contagion of Nolan's Barry's new confidence story sounded like the solution of ev"We've got to erything they agreed get Jack out before Saturday” Barry said “His father’ll be home then" Both women looked up at him to you?" “Wlmt'U Peggy hnppen asked "The main question” Barry urged "Is what’s going to happen to Peg And Jack And Jacky" "We’ll meet that when It comes” “But now returned stendlly I’eggy I’m worried about you" She excused herself early with the plain purpose of leaving Barry with His I’at But the Judge stayed on mind had been busy legally trained with the Nolan disclosures “If Mr Kelly slept at her slMer’a didn’t why she say so to you? It would've been her best alibi” "Yes but It would have Involved adwith mitting that she'd had a Kelly" admitted “That’s true" Hambldge "But Nolan was drunk last night yon say And some parts of his story simI don't believe ply don’t hold water there was between anything 'queer' Mrs Kelly and the Filipino Kelly's for account wouldn’t out finding that his calling the man a ‘lousy sp'’ would It?” "No” Barry retorted “But lister If tlfe Chink was a ‘louy spy’ lie get didn’t lie? Wouldn't thrt paid for It explain Mrs Kelly's giving hint ‘coin nnd Jewelry?’ And everything elf? The Clilnkl reporting “Betty Barclay I message and all the rest of It? toll you this story's as straight as a string Betty Barclay went on the road with her show about the time I foun JJrs Kelly sued for divorce that out some time ago She got hack and phoned the day of the muider Mr Kelly Kelly learned of that from the Chink Then and lit Into Mike Mike lit Into the Chink and the Chink killed him I think we enn prove that” The Jndge shook Jils head —It certainly establishes "Anyway reasonable doubt of Jack's guilt" convict the Jack" ‘They can't Judge Insisted “Peter says so and I've never known Peter to be wrong when h But acmade an assertion like that quittal means waiting for the trial anl waiting 'for the trial means that Jack will still be In Jail when his father returns" Pat remained silent but the next morning on the beach she drew Barry the little group engaged In away from railroad construction f f TO BE CONTIM EDF i - ? 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